Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Language:
English.

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Anne Loftis was born in New York City in 1922 to Mary R. Nevins and the late historian Allan Nevins. She graduated from Smith
College in 1944, then worked as a journalist and free-lance writer. She is the author (or co-author) of three books published
by Macmillan:

The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans During World War II, written with Audrie Girdner. 1969.

California, Where the Twain Did Meet. 1973.

A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers, written with Dick Meister. 1977.

She is also the author of numerous articles on ethnic groups and farm labor organizing. She is married to John Loftis, emeritus
member of the Stanford English Department.

Scope Note

Papers consist of research materials gathered by Anne Loftis and compiled for the book which she co-authored with Dick Meister,
A Long Time Coming. The collection includes correspondence, interviews and oral histories, notes, photographs, and printed material such as brochures,
handbills, newsclippings, and pamphlets.

The papers document the various efforts to unionize America's farm workers during the twentieth century and include materials
on major unions such as the National Farm Labor Union, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and the United Farm Workers of America.

In most instances, the original titles of folders have been retained.

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Selected Index

Governor Jerry Brown
(6/1, 2, 3, 4)

Cesar Chavez
(1/8; 5/12)

Dr. Ernesto Galarza
(1/10, 16, 26)

H.L. Mitchell
(1/4, 21-26; 4/4-12)

Jean Simpson
(1/3)

Reverend James L. Vizzard
(1/4-7, 11)

Henry Wallace
(1/12)

Senator Williams
(5/9-12)

Abbreviations Used in Guide

AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration

ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union

AFL - CIO
American Federation of Labor

AWOC
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee

IWW
Industrial Workers of the World

NFLU
National Farm Labor Union

STFU
Southern Tenant Farmers Union

TFU
Tenant Farmers Union

UFW
United Farm Workers of America

USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING
A LONG TIME COMING

Box 1, Folder 1

Incoming, arranged alphabetically.

Bliven, Bruce
12/23/69 - 9/16/75

Chambers, Pat
7/22/74

Donofrio, John
10/14/74

East, H. Clay
12/12/75

Fodell, Beverly
6/4/74

Foster, James
nd

Fugita, Stephen
10/18/77

Gardiner, Polly
11/1/?

Graulich, Melody
6/5/74

Hart, James
6/3/77

Higgins, George
6/4/74

Hirasuna, Fred
3/28/74, 6/9/74

Honda, Harry
4/19/74

Land, Robert
6/10/74

McWilliams, Carey
7/26/78

Meier, Matt
4/4/74, 2/3/77

Miller, Sally
5/19/77

Mink, Patsy
11/21/74

Mitchell, H.L. (see folder 2, directly following)

Phillips, Hubert
3/29/75

Pillard, Vicky
1/27/78

Schacter, Leon
5/23/75, 6/6/75

Box 1, Folder 2

Mitchell, H.L.
1/18/76 - 6/28/78

Box 1, Folder 3

Simpson, Jean
12/19/73 - 5/16/74?

Box 1, Folder 4

Vizzard, Rev. James
5/30/74 - 2/6/78

Box 1, Folder 5

Outgoing correspondence -
3/19/74 - 12/16/74

Box 1, Folder 6

Outgoing correspondence -
3/18/75 - 11/18/76

Box 1, Folder 7

Outgoing correspondence -
11/26/76 - 7/30/78

INTERVIEWS AND ORAL HISTORIES - used as sources in writing
A Long Time Coming, arranged alphabetically.

Box 1, Folder 8

Anderson, Henry, former staff official of AWOC, interview
5/12/75

Box 1, Folder 8

Chavez, Cesar, speaking at Portola Valley
5/6/73,and at a gathering for financial support
5/6/73.

Box 1, Folder 9

De La Cruz, Jessie, oral history,
12/14/73Folder 18)

Box 1, Folder 10

Galarza, Dr. Ernesto, interview,
5/7/74.(See also Box 1, Folder 18)

Box 1, Folder 11

Hasiwar, Hank, former organizer for the NFLU. Interview
6/30/75.Also included is xerox of TL to Hasiwar from Loftis.

Gannaway, David Molloy, president of Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of Virginia. Brief biographical sketch and
information regarding his papers. (See also Box 2, Folder 5)

Box 1, Folder 18

Lubin Simon J. From the Bancroft Library, notes taken mainly from letters, telegrams to and from Lubin,
1914-34

Box 1, Folder 19

Mitchell, H.L., co-founder, historian STFU.

1) Writings of Mitchell:

A Message from a Friend; How I Became a Socialist; Little Known Farm Labor History; Recollections of a Southern Radical; Red
Emma Passes at Toronto; Terror in Arkansas (incomplete)

Box 1, Folder 20

2) Correspondence of Mitchell to others,
7/22/76 - 7/21/78

3) Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 21

a) Lists of his schedules and appearances,
1975-76;
The California Democratic Socialist. 4/18/75

Box 1, Folder 22

b) Publicity for his books and appearances

Box 1, Folder 23

c) Personal: biographical sketch; questions for HLM by Anne Loftis; photograph of him and Hubert Humphrey; release for micro
publication signed by Loftis; legal agreement from publisher

Box 1, Folder 24

d) Publications not by Mitchell: The Green Rising,
1910-1977; What Socialism Is and What It is Not; excerpt (xerox) from
Documentary Expression in Thirties America by William Scott; Presentation of the Clandening Award to H.L. Mitchell,
1949;Labor Studies Conference Opportunities, pamphlets

Yoneda, Karl (See under Japanese Farm Workers, Box 2, Folders 31-33)

VISUAL AND TOPICAL MATERIAL:

Box 1, Folder 25

book jacket; xerox of the Introduction of the book; announcements of newly published
A Long Time Coming; synopsis of the book from Washington
Post, 6/12/77.

Box 1, Folder 26

Cartoon portraying American dislike of Chinese immigrants; map of California with its farm areas cited; three photographs,
including ones with H.L. Mitchell and Ernesto Galarza

AGRICULTURAL ISSUES

Box 2, Folder 1

Big Farms Concept. FCL newsletter,
11/22, 5/73;testimony of the National Coalition for Land Reform to Senate Revenue and Taxation Commission on SB 1290,
7/26/72; Agriculture in California,
1966:Statement of the Directors of the Catholic Rural Life Conference, article on worsening conditions for farmers,
1970;interview with Gus Stamenson
9/6/72;testimony of Stamenson,
1/12/72;California Farmers Consumer
Reporter, 12/68;pages from In Definite Battle: Steinbeck and California's Land Monopolists, statement of aims of the NCLR; clippings,
1970-75;notes

Economic Studies of the University of California. Oral History Center Proposed River Delta Project, with attached TLS to Loftis from A. I. Hickman; notes

Box 2, Folder 5

Farmers and Issues. History of the Sun-Maid Organization and Its Antecedents, booklet; The Condition of Farm Workers and Small
Farmers in
1965,report to the National Sharecropper directors; FCL newsletter,
11/72;FCL Reporter
Apr - May 1972;miscellaneous untitled pages

Wetbacks - Miscellaneous Articles. Evolution of Mexican Farm Labor Agreement of
1942; Interest Groups and Foreign Policy; Group Processes and the Era of Stabilization, the Bracero Program
1952-59; The State of the Unions, by Paul Jacobs.

FARMERS

Box 4, Folder 1

General Introduction. Farm Workers to Farmers; clippings, reports from the Center for Rural Studies (San Francisco); interview
with David Brewer,
12/13/74;clippings

Farmers Union. Principles and Purposes of the Farmers Union, by L.M. Rhodes; A Few Facts for Farmers, by C.W. Brooks; The Revolt of the Farmers,
by Charles E. Russel; notes taken from correspondence. (See also Box 1, Folder 19, for information on D.M. Gannavas)

Works of Yoneda: History of Japanese Farm Labor in California, Heritage of Senator Katayama, poem Angel Island Detention Station

Box 4, Folder 34

Works of Yoneda (continued): 100 Years of Japanese Labor History in the USA; A Brief History of U.S. Asian Labor A Partial
History of California Japanese Farm Workers; Rain, Rain, and Rain; Youth Never Dies

Williams (continued): notebook #6 - continuation of hearings of Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor,
1965-66in Delano, CA; continuation of
1965-66hearings in San Antonio, TX; statement by Paul S. Taylor on CA agriculture;
1967report of the Commission on Labor and Public Welfare; article on
Grapes of Wrath and criticism of
In Dubious Battle; article by John Steinbeck in
Nation; Mexican farm labor agreement of
1942.Notebook #2 - summary of Senate hearings on 5.8 (Migratory Labor Legislation)

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World): notes for
We Shall Be All, a history of the IWW by Melvin Dubofsky; The Industrial Union in Agriculture, by Tom Connors;
Arizona Labor Journal for
1917(xerox); xeroxed pages from
So Shall Ye Reap, the story of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement by Joan London and Henry Anerson; xeroxed pages from
The Wobblies, by Patrick Renshaw; notes from
A History of American Labor, by Joseph Raybock; The California Casual and His Revolt, by Carlton Parker; Tales of the IWW, by Paul Shinoff; Songs for Rebel
Workers; The Story of the Ford Case, by the ACLU; misc. notes and clippings.

Box 6, Folder 4

STFU (Southern Tenant Farmers Union): chronology and ideology; Introduction; The Founding and Early History of the STFU, by
H.L. Mitchell; Constitution of the Arkansas Tenant Farmers Union.

Other Women's Labor Unions: syllabus for women's labor history: 19th and 20th century America; Matilda Lindsey and the NWTUL: Labor in the Southeast,
by Josephine F. Pacheco.

Box 6, Folder 18

Unions - Miscellaneous: Syndicalism - Law and Trials (concerning unions; written notes on The Silent Defenders, Courts and
Capitalism in California, by Harvey Duff; To the Beasts, by Calif. General Defense Committee; The IWW's First Fifty Years
(1905-1955)by Fred Thompson;
The Wobblies by Patrick Renshaw;
Go East, Young Man by William Douglass; notes also on Charlotte Anita Whitney, Supreme Court Reporter; misc. reference (see also Appendix, Box
8, Folder 11).

U.S. GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENTS WITH AGRICULTURE

Box 6, Folder 19

AAA Background and Policy: pages (xerox) from
Economic Resources and Policies in the South; reference notes.

The Condition of Farm Workers and Small Farmers, six issues, yearly
1971-75;farm labor organizing bibliography; Outsiders in the System, by Friedland and Dorothy Nelkin; chart of official Calif. State
Dept. of Employment, Division of Farm Labor Service; agricultural agreement between employers and Puerto Rican Agricultural
workers; Appendix - Criminal syndicalism: A Prospectus for a History of Farm Labor Organizing